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...unfortunate that there are no statistics showing the extent of drinking in the university during past years. The News referendums of 1924 and 1926 concerned themselves with sounding out undergraduate sentiment on the Eighteenth Amendment, but did not attempt to investigate the amount of drinking. The only figures available for comparison, therefore, are those from senior questionnaires in Yale, Harvard, and Princeton. These indicate an extremely slight decrease in drinking at Yale between 1906 and 1920. After 1920 there are no figures. No one knows, however, whether this decrease occurred because of, in spite of, or without reference to prohibition...
...decided to temporarily discontinue their usual policy of but a single contest with the University and to have two debates with the Harvard Debating team this year. The second debate will be held late in April to discuss the Harvard Debating Council's plan for the enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment. This reestablishes the debating relations which have existed for many years between Harvard, Yale, and Princeton...
...poll of the students in Yale and in the Sheffield Scientific School conducted yesterday by the Yale Daily News showed a 5 to 1 sentiment in favor of repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment, and indicated that about three quarters of the Elis drink. It was also shown that drinking is more prevalent in the senior than in the freshman year, and that hard liquor is the most popular...
Those favoring repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment numbered 2113, with 426 in favor of strict enforcement of existing laws. Thirty-five per cent of the thirsty consume Scotch and rye, 24 per cent favor gin, 20 per cent beer, and 12 per cent wines...
...ballots, which were not signed asked, "Do you drink in college; no, yes, frequently, occasionally?": "Do you drink outside of college?": "Do most elders in your home environment drink, frequently, etc.?"; "Did you drink before you came to college?"; "Which do you favor, strict enforcement or repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment?"; and "When and if repealed, would you prefer Federal or State control of the manufacture and sale of liquor?" Another question asked for a listing in order of the three alcoholic beverages most commonly indulged...